Methanococcus

Methanococcus é un xénero de microorganismos cocoides metanóxenos do dominio das arqueas, pertencentes á familia Methanococcaceae. Son todos mesófilos, excepto a especie termófila M. thermolithotrophicus e a hipertermófila M. jannaschii; estas últimas, finalmente, foron cambiadas de xénero. O xenoma de M. jannaschii foi o primeiro xenoma de arqueas que foi completamente secuenciado, o que revelou a existencia de moitos elementos xenéticos novos similares aos dos eucariotas. Na taxonomía deste xénero houbo moitos cambios e moitas especies foron cambiadas de xénero, outras foron consideradas sinónimas, e a especie tipo orixinal M. mazei foi cambiada de xénero, polo que a nova especie tipo é M. vainielli.

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Revistas científicas

Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (2005). "The nomenclatural types of the orders Acholeplasmatales, Halanaerobiales, Halobacteriales, Methanobacteriales, Methanococcales, Methanomicrobiales, Planctomycetales, Prochlorales, Sulfolobales, Thermococcales, Thermoproteales and Verrucomicrobiales are the genera Acholeplasma, Halanaerobium, Halobacterium, Methanobacterium, Methanococcus, Methanomicrobium, Planctomyces, Prochloron, Sulfolobus, Thermococcus, Thermoproteus and Verrucomicrobium, respectively. Opinion 79". Int. J. Syst. Evol. Microbiol. 55 (Pt 1): 517–518. PMID 15653928. doi:10.1099/ijs.0.63548-0.
Jeanthon C, L'Haridon S, Pradel N, Prieur D (1999). "Rapid identification of hyperthermophilic methanococci isolated from deep-sea hydrothermal vents". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 49: 591–594. PMID 10319480. doi:10.1099/00207713-49-2-591.
Keswani J, Orkand S, Premachandran U, Mandelco L, Franklin MJ, Whitman WB (1996). "Phylogeny and taxonomy of mesophilic Methanococcus spp. and comparison of rRNA, DNA hybridization, and phenotypic methods". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 46 (3): 727–735. PMID 8782682. doi:10.1099/00207713-46-3-727.
Wayne, LG (1986). "Actions of the Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematic Bacteriology on requests for opinions published in1983 and 1984". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 36: 357–358. doi:10.1099/00207713-36-2-357.
Judicial Commission of the International Committee on Systematics of Prokaryotes (1986). "Transfer of the type species of the genus Methanococcus to the genus Methanosarcina as Methanosarcina mazei (Barker 1936) comb. nov. et emend. Mah and Kuhn 1984 and conservation of the genus Methanococcus (Approved Lists, 1980) emend. Mah and Kuhn 1984 with Methanococcus vannielii (Approved Lists, 1980) as the type species". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 36: 491. doi:10.1099/00207713-36-3-491.
Mah RA, Kuhn DA (1984). "Transfer of the type species of the genus Methanococcus to the genus Methanosarcina naming it Methanosarcina mazei (Barker 1936) comb. nov. et emend. and conservation of the genus Methanococcus (Approved Lists, 1980) with Methanococcus vannielii (Approved Lists, 1980) as the type species. Request for an opinion". Int. J. Syst. Bacteriol. 34: 263–265. doi:10.1099/00207713-34-2-263.
Balch WE, Fox GE, Magrum LJ, Woses CR, Wolfe RS (1979). "Methanogens: reevaluation of a unique biological group". Microbiol. Rev. 43 (2): 260–296. PMC 281474. PMID 390357.
Kluyver AJ, van Niel CB (1936). "Prospects for a natural system of classification of bacteria". Zentralbl. Bakterol. Parasitenkd. Infectinskr. Hyg., Abt. II 94: 369–403.